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Re: ACTION-767: Confirm the EXACT wording of the proposed change to the user agent header on list

From: Francois Daoust <fd@w3.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:11:21 +0200
Message-ID: <48481029.9070308@w3.org>
To: Jo Rabin <jrabin@mtld.mobi>
CC: MWI BPWG Public <public-bpwg@w3.org>

Jo Rabin wrote:
[...]
> Proposed Text:
> 
> Include a User-Agent header indicating the Default Delivery Context by 
> sending a product token set to "W3C-mobileOK/DDC-1.0" followed by a 
> comment set to "(see http://www.w3.org/2006/07/mobileok-ddc)". These may 
> be followed by any number of other product tokens or comments in 
> accordance with [HTTP] [Section 14.43, User Agent Header]. The minimal 
> User Agent header is:
> 
> User-Agent: W3C-mobileOK/DDC-1.0 (see 
> http://www.w3.org/2006/07/mobileok-ddc)

OK, I don't mean to be picky on this, but I probably lost myself in the 
BNG dicussion. My point is that I thought we agreed that the following 
was valid:

User-Agent: W3C-mobileOK/DDC-1.0 (see 
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/mobileok-ddc; my comment)

-> Based on the proposed text, it's not. Actually, I don't mind either 
way, with a slight preference for it to be invalid anyway, but I just 
want to make sure this is what was discussed and agreed.

It's good if it's invalid, although I don't quite see in that case why 
we don't simply state:
"Include a User-Agent header indicating the Default Delivery Context by 
sending a header that starts with:
User-Agent: W3C-mobileOK/DDC-1.0 (see 
http://www.w3.org/2006/07/mobileok-ddc)"
But that's probably not rec-friendly enough...
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